It only matters if you want to select voicemail for that account or if you want to leave the other line open for calls, or if you have multiple people sharing a phone and they want who they are calling to see the call as coming from them.
For inbound to the phone it allows you to identify what extension somebody dialed. We also use them if you want to identify what number somebody dialed in on (tag different DIDs to different users). I'm sure others will come up with more reasons... Mike -----Original Message----- From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of steven warner Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 5:31 PM To: sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: [sipx-users] Lines? Users? It is a dumb question to have to ask. So if anyone can point me to the page or description of "what's what" I'd appreciate it. Scenario: Polycom phone, line 1 is: user 201, Line 2 is : 202. (etc) What is the diff, if I press Line 1 and dial or Line 2? This line vs User thing always bends me into a weird shape after all of my experience with 1A2 systems. It seems like it doesn't matter at all, as the dialing plan and dialing rules control all of the actual line selection. But I would appreciate any enlightenment that a genius could offer. s _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
